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The Edwardians: The Remaking Of British Society
Everyone who lived during the reign of Edward VII was an Edwardian, not merely the rich, the literary or the scandalous. In this classic work, Paul Thompson records the life stories of some five hundred Edwardians born between 1872 and 1906 in a pioneering use of oral history, which captures a uniqu... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Creativity in the Recording Studio: Alternative Takes (Leisure Studies in a Global Era)
Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making. Side A illustrates how creativity arises out of a system in action, and introduces the history, culture, traditions and institutions that contribute to the process of commercial record production.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Environmental Justice: International Discourses in Political Economy
Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science. Volume 8 of the Energy and Environmental Policy series challenges our understanding of environmental justice in a global context. It includes theoretical investigations and case studies by lea... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2001 -
Octopuses (Nature's Children)
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of octopuses.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Bottlenose Dolphins (WorldLife Library)
by Paul Thompson • Ben WilsonIntelligent, graceful and approachable, dolphins have long been among the worlds favorite sea creatures. Of all the dolphin species, the bottlenose is best known and loved. But bottlenose dolphins are more than television stars and aquarium performers. In Bottlenose Dolphins readers will voyage unde... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1994 -
Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals (Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics)
Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communication in interdisciplinary research domains. Using a corpus of nearly 12,000 articles taken from 11 journals, this book addresses the key questions that sur... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
The Voice Of The Past: Oral History
The Voice of the Past: Oral History... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility
Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility moves beyond pure statistics to use qualitative techniques-such as life stories and family case studies-to examine more closely the dynamics of mobility and address mo... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2006 -
Narrative and Genre: Contexts and Types of Communication (Routledge Studies In Memory And Narrative Ser. #Vol. 1)
Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of ""genre,"... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1998 -
Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories (Memory And Narrative Ser.)
Between Generations concerns powerful memories that continue to shape the present, but in this case in almost all families throughout the world. What is it that parents pass down to their children? How can we understand the mixture of conscious and unconscious models, myths, and material inheritance... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2005 -
Narrative and Genre: Contexts And Types Of Communication (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative #Vol. 1)
Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself but also the more complex expectations of 'genre': of t... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1998 -
Oil and Security in the Arabian Gulf
The issue of security in the Gulf has an importance which goes far beyond the regional location of the area. It is enough to note that instability in the area may result in the interruption of oil supplies to the rest of the world. This book, first published in 1981, considers some of the challenges... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1981 -
Dargonesti
by Paul Thompson • Tonya CookA Captive Elven Princess . . .In a time of war, a princess of Qualinost and an elite band of warriors sail forth to rescue their contrymen from the collapsing Ergoth Empire. Their journey goes awry when a strange mist engulfs Princess Vixa's ship and transports them to a phantom island.Who are the m... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1995 -
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation
by Paul Thompson • Ken PlummerPresenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of research methodology, pioneered feminist research, a... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
The Myths We Live By (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1990, The Myths We Live By explores how memory and tradition are continually reshaped and recycled to make sense of the past from the standpoint of the present. The book makes use of the rich material of recorded life stories, with examples stretching from the transient myths of... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1990 -
Organisational Misbehaviour
Misbehaviour at work has traditionally focused on work limitation, pilferage, absenteeism and sabotage. These remain important, but the organisational landscape is changing. From new forms of satirical humour and use of social media, workplace bullying and sexual misconduct, to managerial misbehavio... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Organisational Misbehaviour
Misbehaviour at work has traditionally focused on work limitation, pilferage, absenteeism and sabotage. These remain important, but the organisational landscape is changing. From new forms of satirical humour and use of social media, workplace bullying and sexual misconduct, to managerial misbehavio... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
Recent interest in the evolution of the social contract is extended by providing a throughly naturalistic, evolutionary account of the biological underpinnings of a social contract theory of morality. This social contract theory of morality (contractevolism) provides an evolutionary justification of... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
The Roots of Environmental Consciousness: Popular Tradition and Personal Experience (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative)
This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth of... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2000 -
Agro-Technology
Humans have been modifying plants and animals for millennia. The dawn of molecular genetics, however, has kindled intense public scrutiny and controversy. Crops, and the food products which include them, have dominated molecular modification in agriculture. Organisations have made unsubstantiated cl... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice: The Beatles and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)
This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician. It frames its examination of McCartney’s work through the lens of the systems model of creativity developed by Mihaly Csikszentmi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Organizational Misbehaviour: SAGE Publications
'[A] textbook specifically aimed at organizational misbehaviour. ...it certainly fills a gap... containing a large survey of academic literature on the subject. The book is good: it brings to light subjects which are too often negleced, and it provides an understanding of phenomena which are so com... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1999 -
Evolutionary Biology
Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this well in the much-quoted title of his 1973 paper 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Guide to Supply Chain Management
This guide brings supply chain theory to life. Written for people with a business interest in supply chain management, the book covers the key topics in eleven chapters, including plan, source, make, deliver and return as well as strategy, people, finance, customer service and outsourcing. Each chap... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
Guide to Supply Chain Management: An End to End Perspective (Management for Professionals)
This essential guide brings supply chain theory to life. Intended for readers with a business interest in supply chain management, the book covers the key topics in eleven chapters, including planning, sourcing, making, delivering and returning, as well as strategy, people, finance, customer service... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018